[OE-core] busybox: passwd: applet not found

Laszlo Papp lpapp at kde.org
Wed May 20 15:09:45 UTC 2015


On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>
> On 20 May 2015 at 16:02, Laszlo Papp <lpapp at kde.org> wrote:
>>
>> On a second thought: is even worse now than that, our code has to
>> handle _three_ different scenarios:
>>
>> 1) Desktop.
>> 2) Embedded without Yocto or embedded with old Yocto.
>> 3) Embedded with new Yocto.
>>
>> I do not get excited about this.
>
>
> Do as the documentation says in your distro and you have one scenario.

That means compromising security. I am now looking for the ideal case
in the future. What is wrong about dropping the privileges in busybox
for undedicated processes without creating this separation?

That would combine the convenience with security, wouldn't it?



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